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Quick Look: L.A. Noire

Tails begin to wag as Brad and Ryan rub the seedy underbelly of Rockstar's latest crime thriller.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

May. 17 2011

Cast: Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

L.A. Noire

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I don't know if I'm ready for this! How could I go back to STALEFACES?!

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@golguin
Danm. I just checked my tracking number. My game is on the truck and I should get by 5 on accont my town is the last on his route (why do I have to be the farest town from the shipping center)
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want this so bad.

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Give me a PC version with uprezed textures. Jesus christ, I hope this animation technology becomes standard reaaaal fast. Amaaaaaaaaazing, groundbreaking, stuff.

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This looks utterly amazing. Glad I was pretty much set on the game from day one of their announcing it.

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Edited By RobertOrri

This game looks damn amazing.


And the EU release date isn't until Friday, and Amazon probably won't ship my copy until Thursday, which means I have to wait until after the weekend to play this. ARGH.
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wow

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The facial animation is out of this world.

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fuck the pigs

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If I had to choose between RDR and LA Noire to be ported to PC I would choose LA Noire in a heartbeat.

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@phrosnite said:
If I had to choose between RDR and LA Noire to be ported to PC I would choose LA Noire in a heartbeat.
Totally.
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@Olivaw said:
Holy shit the black and white mode.Holy shit.I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO PLAY THE GAME IN COLOR.
this

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This game, This gameeee! I want it!

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The facial animation is awesome, but good grief, the contrast to the rest of the animations (and the graphics in general) makes the whole thing seem somewhat silly.

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God damn you england why do i have to wait till friday for this game

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I can't wait till my pre-order comes... Does anyone know the approximate length of the game?

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Can't wait to get stuck into this game

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@stage said:

The facial animation is awesome, but good grief, the contrast to the rest of the animations (and the graphics in general) makes the whole thing seem somewhat silly.

Not to that extreme in my view, but I wonder if B and W will modify that some. without saying so much Black and White presentation is not alien to me.

 And yeah, Brad didn't want to be seen digging around through the garbage, guess I will...

 Not sure how I feel about the music jangles and all. Brad really pointed that out at the end of interrogating the woman.

 Ryan's attitude through this was incredible. I like seeing ppl. enjoy stuff though, don't see enough of that these days.

 Well, enough of this, what about Witcher 2? Hope that does well also.

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watched a few minutes, i feel like some of the characters are over-acting to really show off the facial animation, and it just winds up looking weird and exaggerated, when they're acting normally however, its fucking siiiiick

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Whelp, I just went on Amazon and bought my first ever non-Blizzard 60 dollar game. . . minus Portal 2 credit.

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GALLETA IS A LIAR. SHE FLASH KICKED MR GAGE TO DEATH. That's how my investigation went and things turned out fine.

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Ah fuck you British friday release! I want to play this so bad.

Goy Motherfucker.

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Ryan's poppin' a prick over this shit.

Also, this game looks like a big fuck you to Swery.
It looks more like a fuck you to David Cage, really. It takes the best and most game-like parts of Heavy Rain and fleshes it out into a full game. If it goes all supernatural, THEN it's a fuck you to Swery.
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Oh no I peaked! Damn now I want it even more, 3 days left. :(

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@Lucien_Lachance: Exactly what I thought. It makes gameplay parts that don't involve shooting and or stabbing of faces and or necks seem exciting and fun, and not an excersise in frustrating and frankly shitty buttonmashing.

I really dislike how David Cage designes his games, feels so incredibly lazy and like he's just trying to make a movie. Really do not agree with that whole sentiment. Games are interactive, dammit, and those qualities should be used. QTEs are not okay.

edit: I should say I did enjoy the drawing part thing in the beginning of Heavy Rain though. That was nice.
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@Quipido said:
@JacDG said:
Thursday, please be Thursday soon, god damn Europe release dates.... I can't wait no longer damnit, and I mustn't watch, mustn't watch anything.
More like Friday!!Will watch this when I am done with the game.
More like Wednesday *puts on shades*

Shame it'll just be sitting there till Friday :( Curse you exams D:
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The faces are mesmerizing to look at. I think this game is showing us what "over the uncanny valley" can look like. 

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Young Phelps, boyo you need more LA Noire coverage on GB :D

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Can anybody tell me how spoilerish this QL is? Like if its beginning stuff or deeper into the story.  Thanks. 

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ThoSe FaCiAl ExPreSSioNs Are So CrAZy LooKinG. It'S LiKe They'Re ENuNCiATinG EVeRy SylLaBle WiTh TheiR FaCe.

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Dude I went to my local Wal Mart last night and talked them into selling me a copy at just after midnight, I've been up playing all night since.. fucking love it.

 

I bought a 360 and ps3 copy, tried to play the ps3 first, but couldn't get the bonus content, so I'm playing the 360 version first..  It looks great

 

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@RazielCuts said:
Can anybody tell me how spoilerish this QL is? Like if its beginning stuff or deeper into the story.  Thanks. 
Beginning stuff. It composes of the very first interrogation scene which, if you've the hints system (audio and text cues) turned on, basically walks you through it and gives you the answers. Believe me, don't worry about it as Brad takes it extremely slowly and does his absolute best avoiding parts where the game leaves you to your decisions.
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Holy fuck, this game looks good. 

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This game looks amazing. Can't wait!
Comes out the 19th here in my part of the world.

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U just realized that this is a Rockstar game where you play as the cops, has the world gone mad?!

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Slap this game out of Vinny&Jeff's hands right now and get them to do an Endurance Run. I need this.

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Sounds like Brad wanted to do a Quick Don't-Look of this game.

Seriously, I was half expecting him to cover the screen with his hands for fear of spoilers.

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Can't wait for finals to be over

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Must use self control and not watch this QL.

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I love, love, LOVE the Irish chief of police or whatever that guy was.

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dammit brad and ryan are good salesman. just saw the quicklook totally picking this up at work today!

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I have been super hyped for this game!  I never minded the GTA style games, but love the different direction they went into.  I read your review today and thanks for not spoiling anything Bradley, but my mouse is on the close button right now just in case, but I have faith you guys know not to spoil the game (as you mentioned in the first couple minutes of the video).

Will buy in like 2 weeks when I get some time to sit down and enjoy the hell out of this game!

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Oh no it's the Rockstar way of delivering important tutorial information to you in the corner while the game is trucking along.

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Can't wait to play this today. That UPS truck needs to get here faster.

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So just to 100% clarify... You don't HAVE to do any of the open world stuff in this game, correct?

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Another game Giant Bomb sold me on... and so close to exam period too. ._.

Looks amazing.

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wait what, theres a black and white option for the whole game? turning that bad boy ON asap when i get it

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Desperately want this game now. Have to wait until friday :(